My garden has a 45'degree slope - any advice

tamzin2006

Hi All

Just bought a new build

Garden goes straight out from the back of the house for about 6 metres and then a 45 degree downward slope for about 3 metes with my fence at the bottom.

Any one any idea how I shouls use this space??

Cheers

T

Doozergirl

If you can spend the money to get it terraced it would probably benefit you. I've just sold a house where our identical neighbours sold for £24,000k less than us. Ours had a large conservatory, but when I spoke to their agents regarding the feedback they'd had, their steeply sloping garden had come up repeatedly. As ours had been terraced, the whole length of the garden could be utilised properly.

F_T_Buyer

Surely the problem with that is the terrace would be higher than the fence at the end of the garden - unless you make the fence another 3meters higher.

village_life

cover it with snow and charge admission through your back gate ;-)

eurows

Buy a house that hasn't

matto

You could consider having a raised decking area over some part of the bottom area. But be aware if it's over 2m high in any place you'll need planning permission.

irnbru_2

eurows wrote:

Buy a house that hasn't

A bit late for the OP!

MORPH3US

Doozergirl wrote:

If you can spend the money to get it terraced it would probably benefit you. I've just sold a house where our identical neighbours sold for £24,000k less than us. Ours had a large conservatory, but when I spoke to their agents regarding the feedback they'd had, their steeply sloping garden had come up repeatedly. As ours had been terraced, the whole length of the garden could be utilised properly.

I think she means "terraced" as in stepped!

We are currently buying a house that has a similar problem. The current owners have a terraced / stepped effect but I think we will scrap in a just put a raised deck over the bottom 1/3 to make it all level!

M

Doozergirl

Yes MORPH3US, that's exactly what I meant. Dig out mainly, put steps down to the next level with maybe a small retaining wall at the bottom end before the fence!

tamzin2006

thanks very much,

I'm thinking of having 2 levels of decking. My hubby is against it but thats because he'll have the top of building it.

I've had a look around on the net nut can't find any pics!

T

Mrs_Optimist

we had the same problem - a 70 ft garden that just sloped downhill. It is now in 3 levels, we built a retaining wall at the end of the first level, with steps in the middle which take you down onto what is now the patio, and then steps from the patio down to the final level which is grassed out to lawn and has shed, kids swings etc. We have 3 different types of garden in one. the top of the garden is quite level now because we moved earth from the patio level up and we are thinking of having a conservatory built on it now. Hope this makes sense!